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EE LUTHER AIL VISITOR. C <1 and taught embodied is Is, as, for in- Creed: “Who Bat tho pd- la, thntHib will it smbsr fun Forweglfb—resolved that e«|ry pastor iu the Synod shoald, If possi ble, daring the coming year, spend one month in missionary labor out side of his owu parish. Ttte vary thing every one of oar Synods sfeoald da We have mission the gov* , ,,i,. , j principal *tta5£!:;zzz'jg. la oar shatah in behalf af a choroh •*** frr ««t t«» tin* f\' of ^Zjf the right* of JSetors, either by -H dim* •opr"*' tie- , fc0 dal javimlict** w H ZZZd *>y the govern WhtehrvcnH iirtr 1 »© ««* freedom of 11“ « j g yet <»ub*r l^htof FT©**®. **“> Ck««k In either M* ST**! ««,«»* rifveroiuenf, rB« .3* by theemtfirefr* «• ^ altenuitive chol^»«. ^L*». Clinch of SieiU -twritefit to betboufft o i •*%« *ynod holds , ndbaos, witl» **eut«« hrno«l t. ,Iooth. The nw*mhea *»( t <f (teaks- The seomr* J}M. public i» eilnMM> l«i through the cottrf<“\j°f *•' (Dr. vea Gerber, off**! g ticket to -gov oiiHii; The debate proceed b? the roll, each m ' ' 1 ' Ms view, in turn, p* nol seem to me toto in ditftHigatKhed lookig °* have. je<t heard «*y o ■MTORS : DE, D.D., Columbia, 8. C. his practice dots wot always paad with his prineipta* 4te, lit rose sod left the tomb * tn ainrtl m« over destb, the grave, hsjfjjjj Sstsn. Now ju« we able (* ~ “O death! wliert* is thy stingf <% gn»%*e! wbore is thy victory f Thanb be to God which giveth as 1 victoiy' through osr Lord ^ Christ* At his ascension into heaven )**. leg thraagh the bright cohorts g angels, which, we are told, ^notkttd him oat of sight,* be first - r p ij_ before the Everlasting Father hi |a glorified humanity. There did the sainted Stepbeu see him at the rirfa, baud of God, where he make intercession for as who bdkX in him, where we shall be with hha in those eternal mansions net with hands, when life toad l* done. “T. a," by denying this doefcfe of the sfMistolic Church, roht Cheio of part of the glory of his Mtnfa* and deprives the Christian ef tbs consolation derived from that ahidhe faith and cheerful hops, founded npon the free, fall, perfect jtf&fJL turn tor sin, in the person of Cbria on earth, ia hell and at the right hau«i ot God. *, k mads at flknuium sad produced af Arimlnmu. Bat it fiWleis to and tiply authority from these sources, for *T, 8.* sweeps them all away by his rejection of the* Ajwotleif Creed. lie not only stands in opposition to the Charcli Fathers, but be stands iu direct ojiposiUou to the plain teaching of Lather ujhiii this subject, who says: “We therefore in simplicity tteller* that the whole person, Ood and man, after his burial, ie+ccaded into hrll, destroyed its power, con qntwed the devil and took sway all his power. And thus we retain the sound doctrine and hare the oonso latlou that neither the devil nor hell can eusuare or injure us or any one upon as mteHigcnt, and dsvoted a body the aaeassity of satastamg Boaaoke Cottage, the very hope and pride of our Synods T AH know that upon the prosperity of this tnstitu Ban depends, in a great measure, oar individasl ministers of our charch, requesting them to bring osr condt- tine beteto their respsetivw charges, snd, tf vom<h!> m help as h little. WVB, l am ad4$*1ft say, np ft date, we have In ever}' neighborhood scat tered members of one church, who *rP%oking anxiously tor an erau- Mlttar minister to break to them the bread of life, to administer to them the holy communion, mul to heptfse their children. Nome are becoming fafnt and wt ary; others are fttest we leave the Kvangettos! Chhrch, and if, where fhalt we find her pare word, where shall we find her altar ! Many have left ns I We have no ministers to send ont aa missionaries;"we have no meant; theHvar and burdensome taxation sre impoverishing as; theertly thing l*!t fbr ns to do is to follow the example of onr Scandinavian breth ren. If the ministews are slow shoot if, th* chnrcbes Should urge them on, and gladly dispense with their ser- viees for a few weeks, that the gospel may be preached to the poor. receiving cxaulmo the bolical books. Tel fie la one of the moat fanatical ohiltiaatVin ths load, while the 17th artkto of the Aaffc supply of mini«teo But we will not adduce argument* to snataia so plain a prnpositlon. A colour ministers sit IfrhVlkf WTh they relieve the g*v, cf rags fVmiity, ▼a.) has ra- •fWiitded by rorioafrg to me sue dollar, whhRhfhfhBlii piijBI'lhfid w* may speedily soeeeed* "Wsi.y sre mdy 10 SdmMiW that there are hot fear Ilf Mr (Mahtaulon but what eMW |fve bne dnlhir to bafld a Church. That is teas, sad It sliosra how easily ws d»nld hulld a cbnreti when nMteri, fr oar people wwutd gfre bat a **m JHHldn of the bun deed* and UtoftStfud* fhdt they pns I we from the Vi nates of the last General Synod Sboth, that !?.*» oommunicanU dr/ 4 reported by the Hynod compoaHig that body. Now, sappose aa average of only twenty* Are eeotg a mrmhsc WOW SSalrihatrd fbr baUdlng paipssss, ft would give as $4,333, which would totMl s aeat church whenever needed, and ao one wodtd be Injured la the least. And the Sant of th*ie the . >rrl. must gn'dokn r s ,less onr |ieople do twtte#| contilbtNf more libersny, and tsi fVMri>l In rhnfch enierptise, the fliareh mtuit laeviiah^^tt'wnirtcml to the wiad*. Seuole Is s AoarWhfbg U«ti. The A if IJbe ttisd from Atlanta to Ootamba*. If 1*401, dill almost be cerbdn fo through ThU « fH the pdpaUtH*ti and in the most unequivocal ty a Ua la.,visitor a oooristaal ayiabulut, oot, a oousistent cbuMaoh Vot, if rwa;; w»T M«Hy rctnnrinff * ni>w by mail, is not sof- IhKd.ms relatiOfr td %kN- would rcuounoe his yhUhasw, and if be were a ouasistoat. ehiliiast ha would give op his ayaiboUm, Bui H» ha|q»y iactmjuatoacj aaahtes him Iu cling to then both at uuoe.~~.4«* Lutheran. -wftvkh are new strew e iaame of the soaS it,|nf the county aW who believes in ChrlsL^ lie also pomes, lastly, ht conflict with the express teschiaga of the Hilda on this poiuL Psalms Ixxxvi; 13—“Thao hast Ui-Ij \ end ray soul ftvm the lowest hell.* fcpli. If; U— “boa that he saoroded, what Is it luii that he first into the Inttmi part ^ the earth r This pas sage the * evil'll t t<tUii‘ii uadeirstood as k$U placed la the Iswesl part' of the earth. Ho also ia {John iii: U 1 iVUa Hit LA, IS—“For Christ also bath oaor suflered tor sius, the jaat for the unjust, that J»e wight bring M le God. beiug tmi to death in lb> flash, l*ul qua baud h> the Hptrit: b> which also he aeat sad preaelMMl auto the aptnu in priaou.* This )*ssaaga was quoted often by the eariy fathers as |*roof that Christ Went is his aptrit to hell, as we a*d nhitnarv notice r ntewled fqr puWi itfen separately, autl em. to receive proper •trike them as fordid} as it doss us sod the frasihtNty of the plsa pro |XMed, as cfesrly. Thi* plan saves the oerraaity of say expense or su so}'lug delay*. The work once com lueuoed, would •ecurr monthly pay menu oa the debt, and the whole be sxtfnguUhed hi twelve months, with ©ot any mishap or peradventsm. The Synod of South West Virginia, will meet la a short time, when we trust that *u<h .if the Trustees us may he pvrsost will ihonMighl} vra tiht&r the M-bnor and sevurr* its s<!«>p! lot. The Virginia Hynod, at iu next meet big will doubtleos co-operate with their South western brethren. What we want Is harmony sad con ©ert of action, fudunisskm to the legitimately npnwnf judgment of the Hynod*, «y atom is our coOocUoos other iw diould b KlIAtnAUU tsm. i Death has again iavadnl ths raoks of our ministry. AnoUiet of our brethren, one who tor many years has faithfully preaobed ths gospel of Christ, has vecoRsd, as w« trust, the suuiiuoo* of the Master i “tome uf higher r Ws have been furnish ed w|th the following brief aco»unt of bia life: Jacob laixtan, son at Usury asri Mary Killian, was hum Iw Jmmala coasts , N. CL, Jaws mb, IfiiA Ue mfhlly comjdy fePH the if Her. O. Bernheim, 0| !N, 0. Synod, t;o publish of the synodical meeting; the Secretary not think >*. proper, siml according to rg fr snjijHlrt ns, ,4f h* ein Dr. Heiss, iu the Lmthermn and Mineittuargy very kindly reproves ua: u Ww slip the following from the Lnikmrnn Visitor:, ia Berlin, I'rum l*ot ih it but'* fair de l^etfnn Lutheran Church sf flsxasy IYuf. H. M. Hopkins, uf WHUusm College, w rites the. followuig to ths to be erected to John Arndt, the au thor of <The 8ix Books st True Christianity.* It is » perfect shame that the Knglh.h Taitheran Cborrh has not yet a faithful translation of the best work mi Christian godliness ever produced by an aninsptmt man. “It in ft little strange that Dr. Rude has never beard of the saparb English Edition of the preeions work of Arndt, to which be so haOdseUsi'ty refers, published by the Lathers* Bookstore, 117 North 8th Street, Philadelphia, edited by one of the best transferors now living. The ‘shame* he speaks of is net upon the English Lot Keren Church, and he ought not to nae hi! columns tints unjustly to defame the chnrcb which he professes so m neb to love and honor. We can gnamntec that the tranola tion of Arndt's original work, which the Bookstore offers to the public, hi h» fhithlViP one.* ker ic iiou ljcrv Japp, mis iu &e eigintrj an US , V< TV ,lu.s Wkter cs and prunes are rc youth. | To day Mr, it us tlip tin t clusters - 0»rfcm ^C& 7 - ytoMWM >• melons, newing l)r,^,rl rapidly growth of the place. The B»|4lsft« •it just finishing x i}4eu«lld eharrh. The Methodist* k»i e ooe, and hrfW ©V are drffig aoffelag Other* are taking the Add. sad fast tor the want of the WldowM mite, the rhnirJl mast go down We hsn* a beautiful one snr lot, upon the ruodiusn that we balM a rhnrrh oti It. If we toll, ws loos the kd. For the want af a know, we can makr no effort to build up the rhnrrh. We have the prliBegi* of ptwaehiag In the Methodist eharrh, but T caa nut take aay aathrity ia another man's house. We mast have a eharrh uf oar owu, if we ever m of ripe, Sf ' sea.- ^r’ -ft S’ Wm likely the case. 1 ' I that the detogarim r»»4 president by eoiroof b I asys the body itneh av.<!| piwrideat. instead * self to his pimpet tuurt ul takes part iu tb«lcl»ii: ;J tfioos ot anwovsi f th»‘ «*> 1 rather freely iudak*! in. dent, oa being flrddtn | chair, and all the hmibet l tusk the IWlowiu^atli: ia the jiresence o (rod. t| ray action iu thist nod 1 I best of my knoicdgi al Thre»i eldest f{ eight yet v oar call, f church m they will think tin tiou wa* friemU of eating elder meiulier* of the example, which ( we hope iot he slow to foljow. j$VTe letter iu which t leir doua- nolo|»od, worth p emwviag, it iatfull: ,.p ' ■ I toctari la the V »itor y two s you requested some one ou jijn cn dollar r, to pwf- r* ln<oks for yoar the«>k>gh uto.: Little sisto * Mamie, William aud inyt elf, unile ; you please to accept ©f p/a/t, (tiro dollar*. J wishing i assist yon more. Jkith f'e aud many wlanes tor "l)oa> weeks a; to send Evangelical Loti ran Chi it may in all th4e* grnwJ who i* the Hca. even i 1 mity be taken writher it | oris coutr.ist witHii*aid* 1 that when Ihr. \w <»crl*- that (toe seamouadtould with prayer, ther was c l show of disoaliaetifti finally agreed tin l»»u lx* might be used : #d t.Ubv devotional exetyp* of :n which the synod tijpiges. «f a synodical pn er-nn * * I iqesmnc. provkc hu:. rhlu-ul*-. _ LsH 1 lta)«* assembly, whirl is lookc* sumve of U tw» polir . |*oint the wqy tn-arde a u Ife for the Etiigclu >•— Ohnrch of Haixor. • We were taking *tep* to batol a eharrh hrte before the war, sod ws would have Socrmled. Since then some uf our leading men have died, sad others wfll out take hold, and What as thought was yet in ao embryo state, ws find tally matured in the Charleston Charier. *0. E.C.* is a rateable ooutrilxttor t “ Wnlh/ifla Seminary.—This thriv ing town is about to receive another addition to its growth and prosperity in the estabBnhment of a irst-stess Female Seminary The Rev. J. A. Hligh, a Lutheran minister, who has been attending the Commencqpent exercise* of the College here ss a member of the Board of Trustees, has arranged for the purchase sf a valuable prof*evty sHaated la Wnl- balla. Hie iweperty eoasists of a largo ami commodious baiMing, which he dcsiga* still enlarging, and about two acres of land under the highest * state of cultivation This is considered the choice prop erty of the village, and can he easily made nailable tor the Seminary. Mr. Bttgfa is now nekwting his corps of teachers, and lift* a promise already of about twenty-five young ladies to commence with. He hopes to have all his arrangements completed early in August next, and will then be prepared to receive many more pn pils. The sdrantage* which this salubrious moon tain region presents for fmch institutions of learning are very great, and parents would do well to consider them be tore sending their daughters abroad. Here they will be in a most healthy region, where there is plentjv of pure air and water, good society, ami under good moral and religious care aud training, ft is to be hoped that this enterprise will succeed, and become one of the largest in the land * your be main yoi friends, i to get sp (sad* for that parpoae. Hut aajros there few reaction among oar people In point of gitlhg, it will prove a fritarr. Well, If onr i«ewplr hare ao use for rharrbe*, uf course they will need no predehtrs, and' so all wlT! go by the board. I still hope that o«r |wop!* will ronrirfer, and hold np oar fesUe hstuU t. m.nr.viiAniii < barch dates fnsn die year 1868, wri i* tegsrdc<l by (lie party uf ths aw»%- meut as oal.v a teaqwrmry stoiisa Is the exodus from the old Kgyp* si Htate control to the t aosaa of tns her of fqneral sermons to front' his labors, and his follow him. , Although Hev. Killian In U1 health far tho imst fe -A prom i pent l;iy- *nd of in a iy years’ c “Donor aoswer bitter and ;iersooal it can nd injure itifiil, conr eosis, sad railing railing. (Mod ness of this Hyaod is to perfect h, is fur ss present rtministances permfe after the model of Ylte CiesbytOluflr orgsaixed cfaarrkm of Bsdea. West pkutlis sail Hanover. For tins pot* poor, three popostioM have ksiO laid before the Hywod by the fSiWV meat. Tim first contemplates the appoint incut of an “upper teams lury, r sKich ahull Is* rhithed Wife all 1h«* ercU-Ktsnrical power* sffed (iresriu in mist ry in rra ngdieis; vkft* the latter shsli confine itself whollf to the oversight of imblfe insOte lion. According to the jneseut «•»' Ktitntiou. the Hy tiud is In meet srif tmee in five yean*; and tha **d' Iiroposithsi contempUtes *• 0* pcfttnxHit uf s committee o4 <a(cr**h which shall exereiae oertsifi of fe» 1 rawer* of the Hynrel during few fe* terval. The thud proposes the shs litioii'bt the oM right of patrol which though modified sad HsKd by various legiahttiou sines atilt remains ss au inenhos so M religions pros;icritv of the Bvsagfe tad Lutheran Olmrch af Saiaaf* The first two topics have been l** into the hands of the “Gesiadttte of Chart* Polity* (Verfowafifi^ chusaeei; ami the Hynod ooeded at once to thn duwaKW , i w the question of patronage. • Among other ihfewesicos hetw*** die Zwiagtwin and the K iAithcrW rrforiuntioiws to thq ailvantsfle * the former, wuaf his: that m Salto?? laud the okl n lntioiis between the Chan* ami the State* fo—dsfedF the feudal system, were abatotodi while in Germany they wcrenUfeto fjnther, proceeiling oh the fw****^ of changing existing usages m J as they were not dinctly *»*** to Heriptuns n« little a* pofeto reserved to tlie ft*ud»l pro|>ritod the right of pnwwitiiliw* to fihtofe livings wKhin their dumsiu. w people had not—nor up to this I Dtw Btatk or Tifw Dkad. • • • We nre /happy Is jfM him (R«-v. Anson West) rvporfwrfioy the literal deem at of f%riut into halt, and its (wafsote dmefrine of purgatory. • • • f.a* ^ expectedly, both to hlamlf frieods. Finding himoslf i Vifffnto hi hehmtf New Pblicati 1 •*« puaei oad sstaat«he<l to Had the above laaguape Hoed by “T. *v" in tho noth*- o tdrfti he gives of tho uew work entitled “The State of the Iftend.” I hare heea otss toonad to regard **T. H.* as being eroageiit-at, stohongh aoiaewtMt ex Inivsgaat sad inesfitiowK In Ins expremioii. bat <» find that the dor trtfia df Christ's dearwmt it pfooed, oith h> *Mhs «Sb the ISniawh notion nf purgatory, is Indy distressing to a chnMisa heart. U is wtd, “Will n aau rsb GadF gat “T. S." *-eks torobttevisS sf part «f hi* victory over Matsu. Kxtravagmt language torial in that it m reasons oi General 8$ - upon ute s churcbly dt oral Byuod, that nofii Ouaacil, cti w traitors to Christ, afed and. toe < church, (of wide* 1 The N( iMjvkktfd. The |4ans beretoShec adopted ji4>s proved toadaquatr General Tnnitv *1)ripUeom Btrherum* A pmsiiNst toeiso of feds country, who is generally highly esteemed, mtoft, “If slavery were taught iu the Hi bis. i would hurl the Bible from fern pol|dt.* A minister lately des ignated the betpiiMB uf children very ; John—Bev. Dr. Joseph Hums haa been down Booth to attend that u Free Conference,* of which thorn line beert so mat* written pro sad con in the papers, y For some rwasou or other ths “Free Conference* did not come off; not a word ia printed ahoaS it any more: whether it has been postponed or abandoned alto gether is not stated. But the doctor and to aim bjMlifl proposal of t, Which has reoeiv- treatment on the asafe, fist twelve mouth*, it wiM give $3,730. Bow. what ia to hinder standing it made it. J ti ever, bays whether thi It devils by tect-l/alHib. the lured it adffitestioia now postdble, and exist- 8pectforhis disappointanest,notwith- j standing. He went totheoomiiemen. 1 soul ment at Roanoke College, aud these iat it fit the special request of Preaidaot limit*, Bittlc, he preached the Bsoealaareate wives sermon, a condescension, which I do f s*ut. nut remember of evur having seen South practiced by a CVdluge Freskteut. xo»st Then Dr. Stem also addressed tho my of Yonwg Men’s Christian Association with of ths {date, iu which address hr ia L. ill fa. SM fiuhxL fe. — tl *— ^ A li .IS. That Ohrite did ibwoend into bell id (meompNah the end af bia aua- ttott^cterksb we b.i *pliuv»]i»!ii^g an* -h:t glovec; an< of Biel «**, <* mfc* it is ‘^mail's kidr i his dH*cx‘M 4s dstll> vchiciry.^ j‘Fstbei meet ef thehr own pastor*, g vested in the manorial pwi* subject only to the eon firm xl tl»e “ministry ta semigsririfp not liewssury h» tiwwll on to - ■ , » >"*, .?*■ • i, v..''tr. apuakotte eharfih. Rufilnn v, who first efipMHitied too Aqwitcisn Cored, mfeai MMHitiuit of his deoccut into lull sepornHs apart and distinct